April 5, 2021
Tentative agreement reached on special services
Affected members will vote April 7-9.
March 25, 2021
UTLA UPDATE - 03.25.2021 with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz
Weekly news update with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz.
March 25, 2021
UTLA UPDATE - 03.19.2021 with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz
Special UTLA Update: UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz, Dorsey HS teacher Sharonne Hapuarachy & Canoga Park ES teacher Wendy Lozano.
March 23, 2021
Countdown to Equity: Mothers, educators and unions put the Department of Education on a 90-day notice to address racial inequities in public education
A coalition of educators and mothers of students with disabilities from cities across the country — Austin, Los Angeles, Oakland, Madison, Milwaukee and Boston — filed a legal petition today with the US Department of Education, seeking to quickly repair the damage of dismantled civil rights protections sustained through the DeVos/Trump years and to rebuild the Department of Education under President Biden and Secretary Cardona.
March 19, 2021
CDC Action Erodes School Safety Guidelines
Educators in Los Angeles are excited to be on a path to the physical return to school buildings in a way that puts safety first. Regrettably, some of the evidence the CDC used to make the abrupt guideline change of six feet of physical distance in schools to three feet is flawed. The report examined only policies and not actual distance, and only looked at the number of COVID-19 cases reported to the state — leaving out students and residents who were asymptomatic and not tested for COVID-19.
March 19, 2021
United Teachers Los Angeles Condemns Ongoing Violence Against Asians, Asian-Americans
Over the past year, nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander (API) peoples have been reported in the United States — and likely many more have gone unreported. UTLA condemns each and every act of hate and stands in and alongside the API community.
March 17, 2021
Statement on childcare needs for LAUSD employees
As millions of working families - including frontline workers in hospitals, grocery stores, food processing plants, sanitation, transportation, and other professions - have been forced to leave home for work and scramble to find childcare throughout the pandemic, it's become more clear than ever that we as a society must do more to provide affordable childcare options for families with children too young for school, but this problem can't be resolved in UTLA and LAUSD's hybrid return agreement.
March 14, 2021
UTLA UPDATE - 03.12.2021 with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz
Watch the March 12, 2021 UTLA Facebook Live with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz.